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SubjectRe: v2.6.21.4-rt11
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:

> This particular machine, elm3b6, is a 4-cpu, (gasp, yes!) 4-node box i.e
> each CPU is a node by itself. If you don't have CONFIG_NUMA enabled,
> then we won't have cross-node (i.e cross-cpu) load balancing.
> Fortunately in your case you had CONFIG_NUMA enabled, but still were
> hitting the (gross) load imbalance.
>
> The problem seems to be with idle_balance(). This particular routine,
> invoked by schedule() on a idle cpu, walks up sched-domain hierarchy and
> tries to balance in each domain that has SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.
> The nodes-level domain (SD_NODE_INIT) however doesn't set this flag,
> which means idle cpu looks for (im)balance within its own node at most and

The nodes-level domain looks for internode balances between up to 16
nodes. It is not restricted to a single node. The balancing on the
phys_domain level does balance within a node.
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